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This book assembles a collection of papers first presented at the Summer School and Conference on the Method of Lexical Exceptions held at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, 2-8 September 2007, which explored an area of linguistics now referred to as ‘the method of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-01
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Dieser Band setzt sich zum Ziel, praktische Erfahrungen und Reflexionen aus der universitären Fremdsprachendidaktik zu diskutieren und Einblicke in wesentliche Trends einer (breit gefassten) modernen angewandten Sprachwissenschaft zu vermitteln. Er präsentiert vierzehn...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-01
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This concise companion explores the history of psychoanalytic theory and its impact on contemporary literary criticism by tracing its movement across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. Contains original essays by leading scholars, using a wide range of cultural and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-03-31
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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A COMPANION TO MODERNIST POETRYA Companion to Modernist PoetryA Companion to Modernist Poetry presents contemporary approaches to modernist poetry in a uniquely in-depth and accessible text. The first section of the volume reflects the attention to historical and...
Editeur :
Wiley
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2014-03-31
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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As we approach the seventieth anniversary of the first appearance of Mary Poppins, interest in P. L. Travers’ most famous creation is still strong and the time is right for a reassessment of a work that is rich in meaning for child and adult readers alike. This book...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-26
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Within the past decades, Henry James has been seen going to the movies and to Paris, both far more likely destinations for him than battlefields of the modern world. Sending him off to war seems to be a preposterous idea, but the exaggeration inscribed in the title of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-26
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The twenty-two papers in this collection represent various cognitively-oriented approaches to the study of literary and persuasive texts. Their authors include both linguists and literary scholars, united by their interest in exploring the mental processes accompanying...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-24
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This volume attempts to keep track of the most recent developments in corpus-based, corpus-driven and corpus-informed studies. It signals the widening scope and perspectives on language and computers by documenting new developments and explorations in these areas...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-24
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2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Stephen King’s first novel Carrie in April 1974. Rescued from the rubbish by his wife Tabitha, the novel launched the Maine schoolteacher on a prolific and extraordinarily successful career. His name has become...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2014-03-20
Collection :
Brief Histories
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Dieses Buch will daran erinnern, dass Arbeit die Basis aller Kultur ist. Die Würde körperlicher wie geistiger Arbeit ist ein Leitmotiv in den vierzehn hier vorgestellten Essays. Die Retrospektive umfasst die Arbeiterbewegung in ihrem Ringen um die soziale Frage, die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-19
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This study deals with the frequency and use of clausal complementation in the oral production of two different Spanish learner groups (i.e. Galician/Spanish learners and Spanish learners) as compared with a further learner group (i.e. German learners) and with native...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-19
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Culture and language provide two essential frameworks to deal with the concept of time. They view time as observer-determined and thus shed light on multiple and often conflicting temporalities we live in, think, and talk about. Relying on empirical methods, the book...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-19
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NEW ENGLAND BEYOND CRITICISM “Elisa New’s book is a remarkable achievement. It is very rare that a critic manages to ask what seem exactly the right questions, then to answer them in a lively, brilliant, evocative, and supremely intelligent prose.” Charles F. Altieri,...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2014-03-18
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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Die Kommunikation in der Touristik hat in der germanistischen Forschungslandschaft bislang vergleichsweise wenig Beachtung gefunden. Mit seinen insgesamt 18 oftmals kontrastiv ausgerichteten Beiträgen aus der Germanistik, Anglistik und Romanistik möchte der mehrsprachig...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-12
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This book explores the differences between ‘high’ and ‘low’ cultures in an Irish context, arguing that these differences require constant revision and redefinition. The volume includes analysis of famous Irish writers such as Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, James...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-12
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This scholarly but accessible volume traces the impact of the enduring themes and key women characters from Arthurian tradition in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s artistic corpus. Combining literary and visual analysis, the author opens a double perspective upon the past to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-12
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Books that Changed the World tells the fascinating stories behind 50 books that, in ways great and small, have changed the course of human history. Andrew Taylor sets each text in its historical context and explores its wider influence and legacy. Whether he's...
Editeur :
Greenfinch
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2014-03-06
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Primo Levi und Ruth Klüger, zwei der wichtigsten Stimmen der Shoah-Literatur, unterscheiden sich stark in ihrer Persönlichkeit, ihrer Bildung und ihren Schreibbedingungen. Beide greifen jedoch auf den Dialog zurück, um sich persönlich mit der Shoah auseinanderzusetzen,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-05
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The diversity of gay men’s life writing since the Stonewall Inn riots is not limited to the coming-out story. Memoirs, personal essays, fictionalized autobiographies, and other forms of life writing witnessing to gay experience adopt many narrative paradigms and are...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-05
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The present study examines grammaticality judgment data, production data and acceptability judgment data from 243 Cantonese second language learners and a control group of 12 native English speakers. Research areas concern (a) the role of the first language in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-05
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